Friday, 2 September 2016

Questions about Anbang’s owners come as Chinese companies
make deals around the world — sometimes representing efforts by China’s
powerful to move money out of the country, as the economy slows and the party
tightens its grip on everyday life.

Thursday, 1 September 2016

White nationalists and self-identified Nazi sympathisers
located mostly in the United States use Twitter with "relative
impunity" and often have far more followers than militant Islamists, a
study being released on Thursday found.

Wednesday, 31 August 2016

In my view as a private researcher who has researched the
issue for years, the tribunal's ruling was also weighed down by a litany of
controversies as there were eight troubling issues arising from the ruling.

Myron Nordquist, a professor at the University Virginia,
said a lot of things were wrong about the tribunal's award over the South China
Sea dispute, particularly the fundamental flawed system to begin with.

Describing the arbitration as "one-sided", the veteran
maritime law expert said a good award should be one with both parties' consent.

"It is a bad decision politically and this is a
political decision," Nordquist said.

"It is a matter of whether the Article 298 (which
grants a nation the right to declare issues that it does not accept compulsory
arbitration) was honoured."

Nordquist also believes the award's decision to declare all
geographic features within the South China Sea as rocks or low-tide elevations
"is not going to be well-received".

"For example, Japan is going to be, in the end, unhappy
with the way rock and island issue was handled by the Tribunal," Nordquist
said. He cited the case of Okinotorishima, an island claimed by Japan and one
even smaller than Taiping, as it might be put in an awkward position by the
award.

The July 12 tribunal ruling on a maritime dispute case
brought by the Philippines against China helped to clarify international law on
oceans and sets a high bar for what constitutes islands. It will have
repercussions for many regional states' claims.

Tuesday, 30 August 2016

A leading talk show host claims Canada’s tourism promotion
agency is trying to prevent him from airing episodes on the mainland that touch
on politically sensitive topics in the North American country, calling the
obstruction censorship.

Monday, 29 August 2016

On Monday, a week after he stunned Singapore when he nearly
fainted while giving an annual policy speech live, Prime Minister Lee Hsien
Loong is due back at work. Following medical leave of seven days, it may be
business as usual for him. But the incident has drawn attention to the unusual
level of uncertainty around leadership succession.

Buying and selling pre-owned cars can be a real hassle. From
dealing with unidentified scratches on the trunk - "Is the car really
accident-free?" - to negotiating pricing with glib salesmen - "Today
is your lucky day, because I have a special deal just for you!" - takes
some getting used to.

This is a tale of spies, a US$500 million (S$677 million)
cyber arms heist, accusations of an attempt to manipulate a US presidential
election and an increasingly menacing digital war being waged between Russia
and the West.